1. What does low immunity do to us besides reducing our ability to resist disease?
Immunity is a body defense mechanism system it just not a disease resisting mechanism. It does some other function than just creating ability to resist or reducing ability to resist disease if it is low Immunity is a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion.
It involves specific and non-specific components. Non-specific component acts as barriers/eliminators of wide range of pathogens of any antigenic specificity.
Other components of the immune system adapt them to each new disease encountered and are able to generate pathogen-specific immunity.
In fact, in Ayurveda the science I belongs to, immunity is described as mechanism to prevent origin/production of disease, capability to handle/tolerate the disease in different steps and not just capability to resist the disease but to overcome disease. It is also considered a force against the strength of disease
When we say prevention or origin or production of disease ultimately it refers to maintenance of health or order in body so disorder should not happen. There is regimen of day and seasonal regimen with body self-care and hygiene therapies described in Ayurveda to maintain order of the body
2. Does eating vitamin C health care product can really improve our immunity?
Well again do not bind immunity to one particular vitamin or one particular element. Yes vitamin c claimed to be immunity boosting but so as B6 or E etc. There are 8 or more vitamins claimed to be boosting immunity but they are considered as exaggeration of facts by some researchers. Although Vit C Is claimed to be one of the best
However most vitamin health care products may act as support what really help more are things like personal hygiene, good night sleep, positive attitude and good food.
What really important is instead of running after products and supplements, activate or enhance our body capacity through good sleep, balanced diet, better behavior, hygiene and regular lifestyle
3. People say a balanced diet can keep the immune system in a good state. But we don’t actually know what a balanced diet is? Can you talk about it?
It is really a big concept, can vary as per the individual, seasons, age, state of life and so on in healthy persons but generally speaking
A balanced diet is not just about calories or protein etc., intake but it is about knowing the human constitution and capacity of digestive system and accordingly designing the food plate. Because many times what you eat is less important than what your body gets out of it after digestion
Freshly cooked food for every meal or cooked in the morning for the day, having all the taste ( in Ayurveda there are six taste described) in proportionate to individual, all the potencies (for example hot in nature and cold in nature food) all the forms of food for example masticable, leakable, chewable and drinkable in the same plate, multiple beneficial qualities food and with support to digestive system by using spices like turmeric, long pepper, ginger garlic, cumin, basil etc. and oil/ghee to smoothen the digestive process is a balanced diet
It look complicated but in fact it is not, for example if you take any food item let us say rice it already comply with hot touch, cold nature, sweet taste, soft/unctuous/humid qualities and masticable form so just normal healthy/beneficial food with regards to your constitution is balanced diet